"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh

Friday, August 29, 2008

Sarah Palin

I am shocked that a major political party could offer up a candidate who has such little experience in foreign policy, national security and health care.

But since the Democrats have decided to do that , they really can’t complain about Sarah Palin, now, can they? In fact, she’s had more executive experience than Obama, plus she’s a pork-buster to boot.

Frankly, I think this is an exciting choice. The only “dirt” on her, so far, is that she has been accused of pressuring the state troopers to fire her brother-in-law, ostensibly for personal reasons. Well, just take a gander at this from Confederate Yankee and let me know if you think the guy was fit to wear a police uniform.

Update II: Hey, John Edwards is going to give a speech, too. Word on the street is that the stage will be set up like a hotel room, complete with champagne bottle in a bucket of ice and a porn video stream on a plasma TV. The subject of his speech (per Brit Hume): "The American Dream."

I dunno, C.L., is he the hamburger or garbage disposal in this analogy? ;-p

In the backwoods, stupid kills.

mojo, how true that is. Alaska is mostly a howling wilderness, with a few pinpricks of civilization here and there. Wolves run around the edges of Fairbanks and Anchorage, for example. Sometimes they foray in as well.

I didn't do much traveling outside of the urban areas of Alaska when I was stationed there, in large part because I wasn't familiar with it, lacked the equipment (it was at home), and didn't have the time to find a suitable mentor. Entering the wilderness (even the national parks) means ramping up your situational awareness; that ain't Kansas by any stretch of the imagination.

So Palin is well aware of just how thin the veneer of civilization truly is on this planet.

First of all, I'm pleased with the choice of Palin for VP, for a number of reasons. But because I do not agree with all of her political philosophy, I'm not so giddy as some.

That said, let's let her serve in the office of VP for a term or two before we consider her for 2016 presidential bid. All in all, I think she might be a viable choice for then, but that's a lot of years away. Plenty of time for her to screw up, as so many good ones have before.

Mr. H says that I am a wet blanket. I prefer to think of myself as realistic (or as having let myself fall too many times because of my overenthusiasm).

I want Palin to succeed. I desperately want the McCain/Palin ticket to win in November, because I fear the Obasocialist future. But I'm not expecting rainbows and unicorns, and neither should you.